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Start your family history Story Blog to write your stories one at a time. Use our story prompts to elicit memories in all life stages, milestones, and wisdom, etc. Share your stories with only family or promote your blog in our public library. Print your legacy stories in an heirloom Legacy Book.

Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek
Are You Bragging or Complaining?
This chronicle is for you, Red Lee. You are in the center of that mental photograph that flashes in my mind, since that day in early autumn of 1955 when...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek
Moss and Mumblety-peg
The game of mumblety-peg is so old that even Mark Twain mentioned it as one of the favorites enjoyed by young boys. It was outdoors, in the summer, and played in the grass. To...

On the road …again!
Afghanistan to Zambia
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek
A Short Botanical History Of Home
We youngsters might have taken the trees for granted when we were very young, but as we grew older those trees around the house became keepsakes. The old Pellek...

On the road…again!
Afghanistan to Zambia
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek
La Pizza In Tutto Il Mundo
While finishing a slice of hot pizza from an undistinguished establishment not usually known for good pizza (Sam’s Club in Salisbury, Maryland), the Bengal Tiger and The Bear...

On the road… again!
Afghanistan to Zambia
Chronicles of a Footloose Forester
By Dick Pellek
Knee High By The 4th Of July
Growing up in the snowbelt of Northern New Jersey, the Footloose Forester was aware of the fact that our little town was about 10 degrees colder than...